After Friday meetings between the government and teachers, in which Minister of Guardianship Fernando Alexander revealed that the meetings “took place in a spirit of openness and dialogue, with a sense of responsibility for everyone, with the aim of ensuring the conditions for the start.” “An academic year characterized by greater calm than in recent years”, yesterday it was the turn of the executive authority to meet with the public police structures, the National Police and with the professional bodies of the health sector.
The Ministry of Internal Administration (MAI) led by Margarida Blasco, who met with four social and professional associations of the National Republican Guard (GNR) and six unions of the Public Security Police (PSP), explained that “these meetings will be the beginning of building understanding and reconciliation between the entities involved, with the aim of dignity and appreciation of the forces Security” and aims to “define and establish a methodology and protocol for hearings and negotiation” and to present “assumptions of the scope and subject of discussion” and negotiation between the parties.
Regarding health, the Minister holding the portfolio said that over the next two months she would evaluate the proposals made by the professional orders, which showed concern about the assistance response of the National Health Service (SNS). Ana Paula Martins also explained that each of the proposals “must be evaluated for its impact at all levels.”
He explained: “The two-month deadline is not a deadline set by the Ministry of Health. The two-month deadline is the deadline that the Medical Syndicate gave in its proposals to the Ministry of Health so that we can respond to it.” “What is their attractiveness for collaboration?” In addition to the issue of salaries, union structures also ask for the replacement of 35 hours of work, the implementation of career progression, the implementation of a simpler and more applicable evaluation system, and even the return of trainee doctors to their careers.
Recall that negotiations with teachers will begin in May and the government official has already stated that part of the recovery of teachers' service time will be implemented later this year. It concerns the length of service of 6 years, 6 months and 23 days for teachers, which has been frozen since the Troika and which, according to AD calculations, will cost 240 million.
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